A proposal for testing complementarity with cavity QED techniques

We propose a method to test Bohr complemetarity with cavity QED techniques. It involves an atomic beam passing through two Ramsey zones and a nonresonant cavity initially filled with a strong coherent field. In the absence of the cavity field the probability of finding the atom in a definite state exhibits interference. Due to the dispersive atom-field interaction the paths by which the atom reach the definite state are remarked and thus the interference is destroyed. The associated quantum eraser is also presented.     

位相损耗腔中简并双光子拉曼耦合系统中的熵特性

研究了简并双光子拉曼耦合过程中存在位相损耗时,光场原子系统线性熵、光场线性熵和原子线性熵的特性,讨论了原子相干性和光场平均光子数对各线性熵的影响.结果表明:由于位相损耗的存在使系统的线性熵除初始时刻为零外,其他时刻均大于零,且与原子初始状态无关,即原子相干性对系统线性熵没有影响.当原子初始处于激发态或基态时,原子线性熵呈现出较完美的周期性;而在原子初始处于激发态和基态的叠加态时,原子的线性熵始终为零.随光场平均光子数的增加,各线性熵均会增大. 关键词： 位相损耗 简并双光子拉曼耦合过程 线性熵     

高Q Kerr介质腔中二项式光场与原子相互作用

应用全量子理论研究了在高Q Kerr介质腔中, 二能级原子与二项式光场相互作用系统中原子行为和光场的量子特性. 采用数值计算的方法, 详细讨论了光场参量和Kerr效应对原子布居反转和平均光子数的影响.研究发现当二项式光场处在中间态时, 在考虑Kerr效应的条件下,原子布居振荡加剧, 回复时间变短, 系统内平均光子数减少.     

Doppler-Rabi oscillations of a moving atom due to the roentgen interaction in a cavity

The dynamics of energy exchange between an atom moving in a high-Q cavity and the cavity field is analyzed by taking into account the Roentgen interaction. A two-level atom coupled to a Fock or coherent state of an optical or microwave cavity is considered. The mean cavity photon number required for high-frequency Doppler-Rabi oscillations to occur is relatively high for both Fock-and coherent-state cavity fields and increases with the atomic transition frequency. Conditions are found when the Roentgen interaction plays a key role in the Doppler-Rabi oscillations and must be taken into account, in addition to the conventional electric field-dipole interaction.     

Test of Nonlocality with an Atom-Field Entangled State

We propose a scheme for the test of nonlocality with atom-field entanglement. An atom is sent through a cavity filled with a coherent field with a small amplitude. The dispersive interaction leads to atom-field entanglement.Then the field is driven by a classical current. The Bell inequality can be tested by the joint measurement of the parity of the field and the atomic state.     

Entanglement Generation for Two Coupled Multi-excitation Fields Interacting with Qubits

We study the entanglement dynamics for two coupled multi-excitation cavity fields, each independently interacting with a two-level atom. We find that even when the atom-field system is initially not entangled, the fields can become heavily entangled through postselecting of the atomic state. The field entanglement entropy is dependent on the total excitation number but independent of the coherent photon hopping strength.     

Generating and probing a two-photon fock state with a single atom in a cavity

A two-photon Fock state is prepared in a cavity sustaining a "source mode" and a "target mode," with a single circular Rydberg atom. In a third-order Raman process, the atom emits a photon in the target while scattering one photon from the source into the target. The final two-photon state is probed by measuring by Ramsey interferometry the cavity light shifts induced by the target field on the same atom. Extensions to other multiphoton processes and to a new type of micromaser are briefly discussed.     

Conditional large Fock state preparation and field state reconstruction in cavity QED

We propose a scheme for producing large Fock states in cavity QED via the implementation of a highly selective atom-field interaction. It is based on Raman excitation of a three-level atom by a classical field and a quantized field mode. Selectivity appears when one tunes to resonance a specific transition inside a chosen atom-field subspace, while other transitions remain dispersive, as a consequence of the field dependent electronic energy shifts. We show that this scheme can be also employed for reconstructing, in a new and efficient way, the Wigner function of the cavity field state.     

腔场初始态对两量子比特空间退相干的影响

研究了两个二能级原子与一个单模腔场的相互作用中,腔场的不同初始态对原子间相对位置退相干的影响。从描述原子间相对位置状态的约化密度矩阵出发,假设原子间相对位置为两个高斯波包的叠加态,讨论了当腔场初始态分别为热态、Fock态和压缩态情况下,原子与光场的相互作用对两原子间相对位置相干性的影响。发现腔场的初始态不同,原子间相对位置的退相干情况有所不同。当腔场初始态为热态或Fock态时,原子间相对位置的相干性会周期性的衰减和回复,而当腔场初始态为压缩态时,原子间相对位置会出现部分退相干,且退相干程度与原子间相对位置的大小成余弦变化关系。     

Quantum state engineering in a cavity by Stark chirped rapid adiabatic passage

We propose a robust scheme to generate single-photon Fock states and atom–photon and atom–atom entanglement in atom–cavity systems. We also present a scheme for quantum networking between two cavity nodes using an atomic channel. The mechanism is based on Stark-chirped rapid adiabatic passage (SCRAP) and half-SCRAP processes in a microwave cavity. The engineering of these states depends on the design of the adiabatic dynamics through the static and dynamic Stark shifts.     

Population Dynamics and Emission Spectrum of a Cascade Three-Level Jaynes-Cummings Model with Intensity-Dependent Coupling in a Kerr-like Medium

By using the method of eigenvectors, the atomic populations and emission spectrum are investigated in a system that consists of a cascade three-level atom resonantly interacting with a single-mode field in a Kerr-like medium.The atom and the field are assumed to be initially in the upper atomic state and the Fock state, respectively. Results for models with intensity-dependent coupling and with intensity-independent coupling are compared. It is found that both population dynamics and emission spectrum show no indications of atom-field decoupling in the strong field limit if the intensity-dependent coupling is taken into account.     

远程控制纠缠原子的偶极压缩

考虑初始处于EPR态的两个二能级原子A、B,将B原子注入处于真空态和单光子态的叠加态的腔中,演化一段时间后,对B原子进行选择性测量,通过选择合适的腔场初始叠加状态和演化时间,可控制原子A的偶极矩压缩效应.     

相位损耗腔中大失谐Jaynes-Cummings模型中熵的演化

研究了一位于相位损耗腔中大失谐下二能级原子与相干态场相互作用系统中，光场线性熵、原子线性熵以及光场－原子系统线性熵的演化，讨论了原子初始状态和光场的平均光子数对各线性熵的影响，结果表明，光场线性熵和原子线性熵的演化都较强地依赖于原子初始状态，而系统线性熵的演化与原子初始状态无关。由于光场平均光子数的增加，光场、原子和系统的线性熵都会增加。     

Entanglement dynamics of two atoms successively passing a cavity

By means of concurrence, we investigate the dynamics of entanglement between two initially separate atoms in succession passing through a cavity and their interaction with a Fock state field. We then analyze the effects of the atomic coherence, photon number, and atomic motion on the time evolution of atom-atom entanglement. The results show that there can be entanglement between two separate atoms, and that the threshold time for the creation of the entanglement is controllable by the photon number, atomic motion, and field-mode structure.     

Generation of maximally entangled atom pairs in driven dissipative cavity QED systems

We investigate the entanglement of an open tripartite system where a cavity field mode in thermal equilibrium is off-resonantly coupled with two atoms that are simultaneously driven by a resonant coherent field. For moderately detuned atom-field coupling and strong atomic driving we show the generation, at given interaction times and for low enough cavity decay rates, of atomic Bell states and of Bell state superpositions relevant for quantum gates implementation. The system can oscillate between bi-separable and fully separable states. Also we describe the distribution of quantum correlations between the atom-atom and the two atom-field subsystems. In the dispersive coupling regime with strongly driven atoms we show the generation of nearly stationary Bell states which remain protected from cavity dissipation.     

光腔中两组分玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的受激辐射特性和量子相变

研究了单模光腔中两组分玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的基态性质和相关的量子相变.通过利用自旋相干态变换将等效赝自旋哈密顿算符对角化并求得基态能量泛函.基态能量泛函对其经典场变量进行变分并取极小值,得到光子数解和相边界曲线.通过稳定性讨论发现系统除了出现正常相和超辐射相之外,还得到了多稳的宏观量子态;受激辐射来自于原子数反转的集体态,单组分的Dicke系统中并没有此现象;受激辐射只能从一组分的原子中产生,而另外的仍保持在普通超辐射状态.通过调整相关的原子-场耦合强度和频率失谐,超辐射和受激辐射态的顺序可以在原子的两个组分之间互换.     

Quantum instability in cavity QED

The stability and instability of quantum evolution are analyzed in the interaction of a two-level atom with a quantized-field mode in an ideal cavity with allowance for photon recoil, which is the basic model of cavity QED. It is shown that the Jaynes-Cammings quantum dynamics can be unstable in the regime of the random walk of the atom in the quantized field of a standing wave in the absence of any interaction with the environment. This instability is manifested in large fluctuations of the quantum entropy, which correlate with a classical-chaos measure, the maximum Lyapunov exponent, and in the exponential sensitivity of the fidelity of the quantum states of the strongly coupled atom-field system to small variations of resonance detuning. Numerical experiments reveal the sensitivity of the atomic population inversion to the initial conditions and to correlation between the quantum and classical degrees of freedom of the atom.     

纠缠相干态光场驱动下∧-型三能级原子的辐射谱

采用时间演化算符方法,研究∧-型=三能级原子与纠缠相干态光场共振相互作用的辐射谱.给出了辐射谱一般公式,并讨论在纠缠相干态光场驱动下的辐射频谱结构.结果表明,无论下能级简并与否纠缠相干态光场平均光子数很小时均出现拉比分裂,且强度随双模光场纠缠程度的增加而增加.当两下能级简并时,若两模场的平均光子数较小,辐射谱呈现对称多峰结构,若两模场的平均光子数较大,辐射谱呈现对称五峰结构.当两下能级非简并时,若两模场的平均光子数较小,辐射谱呈现对称多峰结构.若两模场的平均光子数较大,辐射谱呈现对称十峰结构.纠缠相干光与非纠缠相干光辐射谱的本质差别有两点:一是双模光场强量子关联导致纠缠度越强拉比峰强度越高;二是存在纠缠时由于两模场相干性导致辐射谱呈现对称多峰结构.     

Generation of nonclassical states in a large detuning cavity

By using the theory of cavity QED, we study the system in which a two-level atom interacts with a cavity in the case of large detuning. Through the selective detecting of atomic state, Schrodinger cat states and entangled coherent states are easily generated. When the atom is driven by a weak classical field and the cavity field is in the Schrodinger cat state, we study the conditions of generating the Fock states and the maximal success probability. The maximal success probability in our scheme is larger than the previous one.     

Atomic self-trapping induced by single-atom lasing

We study atomic center of mass motion and field dynamics of a single-atom laser consisting of a single incoherently pumped free atom moving in an optical high-Q resonator. For sufficient pumping, the system starts lasing whenever the atom is close to a field antinode. If the field mode eigenfrequency is larger than the atomic transition frequency, the generated laser light attracts the atom to the field antinode and cools its motion. Using quantum Monte Carlo wave function simulations, we investigate this coupled atom-field dynamics including photon recoil and cavity decay. In the regime of strong coupling, the generated field shows strong nonclassical features such as photon antibunching, and the atom is spatially confined and cooled to sub-Doppler temperatures.